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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 6511333" data-attributes="member: 6787650">That's not an insurmountable problem. Imagine a movie where some ordinary guy from the real world gets accidentally kidnapped/summoned into a world of legend and then has to become a hero, a la Ash of Army of Darkness fame. You could make a fantastic movie with compelling characters and lots of Crowning Moments of Awesome, throw in some D&D-branded monsters (e.g. he fights a bulette in one scene), and brand the movie "Dungeons and Dragons" without ever using any 5E D&D conventions like "parties" or "homogenous party levels" or "balanced encounters". (In fact, balanced encounters are intrinsically boring and should be avoided in movies at all costs; arguably they should be avoided during play as well.) Maybe the plot of the movie wouldn't play out much like a typical RPG session, and maybe longsuffering grognards would have to spend years afterwards correcting everyone who thinks that "playing D&D" means actually running around with long swords and pretending to be Thok the Barbarian (who isn't even in most campaigns, they just made Thok up for the movie, dude!)... but it could still be a fantastic movie and drive the brand.TLDR; a great movie which conflicts with the "heart and soul" of the RPG will cause Internet arguments but no real damage.P.S. To be honest, I think the "heart and soul" of D&D pretty much requires the movie to transport a real-world character into the game world, because the heart and soul of the game is about players temporarily becoming PCs in another world. I won't say "escapism" or "wish fulfillment" although those are gateway experiences, but I do think that a movie that was all about Elminster doing stuff to Manshoon would be missing a central component of the D&D experience even if it captured the Forgotten Realms experience perfectly. (Is Manshoon still around? It's been a long time since I read those books...)</blockquote>

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